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Shallow Grave (1994)
Country
of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1994
Running Times: 92 mins
Length: 2568 metres
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.66:1
Sound: Dolby SR
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Channel Four Films / Figment Films
/ PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / The Glasgow Film Fund
Executive Producer: Allan Scott
Producer: Andrew Macdonald
Production Manager: Sara Barr
Production Coordinator: Yvonne McParland
SCRIPT
Script: John Hodge
DIRECTION
Director: Danny Boyle
1st Assistant Director: Ian Madden
2nd Assistant Director: Alison Goring
3rd Assistant Director: Stephen Docherty
Trainee Assistant Director: Gina Lee
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Brian Tufano
Camera Loader: Lewis Buchan
Focus Puller: Ian Jackson
Gaffer: Willie Cadden
Electrician: Arthur Donnelly
Best Boy: Mark Ritchie
Generator Operator: Derrick Ritchie
Grip: Roy Russel
Stills: Dominic Turner, Nigel Robertson
Camera Equipment: Arri Media
Grip Equipment: Grip House Ltd
Lighting: Lee Lighting Ltd
Laboratory: Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo
1st Assistant Editor: Anuree De Silva
2nd Assistant Editor: Neil Williams
Post-Production Supervisor: Steve Barker
Editing Facilities: Salon
MUSIC
Music: Simon Boswell
Songs: Neil Barnes, Paul Daley (Shallow Grave; Release
the Dub); Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn (My Baby Just Cares
for Me); James Last, Jackie Rae (Happy Heart)
Songs Performed By: Leftfield (Shallow Grave; Release the
Dub); Nina Simone (My Baby Just Cares for Me); Andy
Williams (Happy Heart)
Music Supervisor: Gemma Dempsey
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Colin Nicolson
Boom Operator: Tony Cook
Re-Recording Mixers: Brian Saunders, Ray Merrin
Sound Re-Recorded At: Delta Sound Services Ltd
Sound Editor: Nigel Galt
Digital Sound Editor: Paul Conway
Footsteps Editor: Richard Fettes
Sound Post-Production: The Sound Design Company
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Graham Johnston
Assistant Make Up: Carmel Jackson
Costume Designer: Kate Carin
Wardrobe Supervisor: John Norster
SPECIAL MAKE UP
EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Grant Mason
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Vehicle Special Effects: John Booth
VISUAL EFFECTS
Special Visual Effects: Tony Steers
Titles and Opticals: General Screen Enterprises
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Kave Quinn
Art Director: Zoe MacLeod
Assistant Art Director: Tracey Gallacher
Set Decorator: Karen Wakefield
Property Master: Gordon Fitzgerald
Dressing Props: Stewart Cunningham
Stand By Props: Pat Harkins
Production Buyer: Karen Wakefield
Props Driver: Scott Kerry
Construction Manager: Colin H. Fraser
Carpenters: John Watts, Peter Knotts, Richard Hassall
Stand By Carpenters: Brian Adams, Danny Sumsion
Painters: Paul Curren, Sam Curren
Stand By Painter: Jim Patrick
Scenic Artist: Stuart Clarke
Construction Chargehand: Derek Fraser
Paintings: Stephen Conroy
Storyboard Artist: John Amabile
Art Department Assistant: Iain Macaulay
Stand-By Rigger: Kenny Richards
Title Designer: Morag Myerscough
Titles Graphic Artist: Pauline Hume
Special Furniture: Lovatt Antiques; Nithsdale Antiques
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Anne Coulter
Production Accountant: Hilda Booth
Caterers: Brendan Diver, Guy Cowan, John McVeigh, Nicky
McVeigh
Production Runner: Saul Metzstein
Floor Runner: Niki Longmuir
Runners: Eric Smith, James Stewart, Jamie Spencer, Mat
Bergel
Stage: Campbell Atkinson
Stand-By Stage: Bryan Boyne
Trainees: Dianne Jamieson, Kirstin McMahon
Insurance: RHH / Albert G. Ruben Insurance Services
Solicitors: Bloom Camillin
Catering: Reel Foods
Completion Bond: Film Finances Inc
LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Fran Robertson
Locations: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Glasgow, Scotland,
UK; New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
STUNTS
Stunt Arranger: Clive Curtis
CASTING
Casting: Sarah Trevis
CAST
Kerry Fox (Juliet Miller)
Christopher
Eccleston (David Stephens)
Ewan McGregor (Alex Law)
Ken Stott (Detective Inspector McCall)
Keith Allen (Hugo)
Colin McCredie (Cameron)
Victoria Nairn, Gary Lewis (visitors)
Jean Marie Coffey (Goth)
Peter Mullan (Andy)
Leonard O'Malley (Tim)
David Scoular (cash machine victim)
Grant Glendinning (bath victim)
Victor Eadie (freezer victim)
Robert David MacDonald (Lumsden)
Frances Low (Doctor)
Bill Denistoun (Master of Ceremonies)
John Bett (Brian McKinley)
Tony Curran (travel agent)
Elspeth Cameron (elderly woman)
Paul Doonan (newspaper office boy)
Billy Riddoch (newspaper editor)
Kenneth Bryans (police officer)
John Hodge (Detective Constable Mitchell)
John Carmichael (bandleader)
PLOT SUMMARY
Three young flat mates in
Edinburgh offer their fourth room to a man who promptly
dies on his first night, leaving behind a suitcase full
of money. The friends decide to bury the man's body and
keep the money - but the dead man's criminal friends are
looking for him, some of the flat mates start to develop a
conscience and tensions are running high. Under this kind
of pressure, something - or someone - is going to
crack...
CAPSULE REVIEW
A confident and gripping debut and one of the best British films of
the 1990s. The cast are uniformly fantastic and Eccleston
in particular is genuinely unnerving as the deranged David whose actions
lead to the almost unbearably tense climax. Boyle's direction is claustrophobic
and oppressive and displays more control, style and invention than many
director's with a dozen more films under their belt.
AVAILABILITY
Germany
DVD Distributor: EuroVideo (21618)
Portugal
Theatrical Distributor: Filmes Castello Lopes
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Alta Films S.A.
UK
Theatrical Distributor: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Video Distributor: PolyGram Video
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Gramercy Pictures
Laserdisc Distributor: Polygram (800 635 275-1)
DVD Distributor: Polygram (800 635 275-2); MGM Home
Entertainment (907800)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: MA
Finland
Rating: K-16
Germany
Rating: 16
Hong Kong
Rating: III
Netherlands
Rating: 16
Norway
Rating: 18
Portugal
Rating: M/18
Spain
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
Switzerland
Rating: 16
UK
Rating: 18
USA
Rating: R (for scenes of strong grisly violence, and for
some language and nudity)
TIMELINE
1995
February
Day Unknown: Portugal - ahown at the Fantasporto Film
Festival
10: USA - theatrical release
15: Spain - theatrical release
June
2: Denmark - theatrical release
July
25: USA - laserdisc release (Polygram (800 635 275-1))
28: Poland - theatrical release
October
20: Sweden - theatrical release
November
10: Finland - theatrical release
1996
March
15: Portugal - theatrical release
1997
January
9: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)
March
20: Hungary - theatrical release
December
27: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)
1998
December
22: USA - DVD release (Polygram (800 635 275-2))
2000
March
23: Germany - DVD release (EuroVideo (21618))
28: USA - DVD release (MGM Home Entertainment (907800))
2002
April
8: UK - television broadcast (on Film Four)
13: UK - television broadcast (on Film Four)
30: UK - television broadcast (on Film Four); USA -
television broadcast (on OMAX)
POSTER TAGS
What's a little murder among friends?
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Kleine Morde unter Freunden -
German title
Tumba abierta (Shallow Grave) - Spanish
title
Shallow Grave - murhaleikki - Finnish
title
Petits meurtres entre amis - French
title
Sekély sírhant - Hungarian title
Piccoli omicidi tra amici - Italian
title
Cova Rasa - Brazilian title
Pequenos Crimes Entre Amigos - Portugese
title
Dödsleken - Swedish title
LINKS
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
The Wicker Man (1973)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Empire December 1998
p.154 (UK)
review
FilmMagasinet June / July
1995 p.38 (Norway)
review (by Dag Tufte)
FilmMagasinet December /
January 1995 / 1996 p.81 (Norway)
review (by Dag Tufte)
Premičre May 1995 p.40
(France)
review (by Eric Libiot)
NEWSPAPER
Expresso, Cartaz 16 March
1996 (Portugal)
review (by Manuel Cintra Ferreira)
Svenska Dagbladet 20
October 1995 (Sweden)
review (Ostrukturerad lek med döden by Jan Söderqvist)
Tjednik 1 March 1997 p.71
(Croatia)
review (by Zlatka Sacer)
BOOKS
The BFI Companion to Crime p.302
credits, review KEYWORDS
apartments; corpses;
attics; greed; insanity; journalists
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